Tracking an album collection that keeps growing with a pinch of local music and life.

The Who

Peter Dennis Blandford “Pete” Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group the Who. His career with the Who spans 50 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Townshend was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990.

Townshend is the primary songwriter for the Who, having written well over 100 songs for the band’s 11 studio albums. He has also written over 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs.

Although known primarily as a guitarist, he also plays other instruments such as keyboards, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, synthesiser, bass guitar and drums, on his own solo albums, several Who albums, and as a guest contributor to a wide array of other artists’ recordings. He is self-taught on all of the instruments he plays and has never had any formal training.

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Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944) is an English singer and actor. He is the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who, and has also maintained a successful musical career as a solo artist. In 2010 he was ranked as number 61 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest singers of all time.

Daltrey has long been known as one of the most charismatic of rock’s front-men and famed for his powerful voice and energetic stage presence. His persona has earned him a position as one of the “gods of rock and roll”.

He has also been an actor and film producer, with roles in films, theatre and TV.

Shocking Blue – Venus
Hugh Masekela – Grazing in the Grass
The Cufflinks – Tracy
Tommy James – Ball and Chain
Three Degrees – Maybe
Canned Heat – Going Up the Country
Box Tops – The Letter
Tommy James – Chuch St. Soul Revival
Intruders – When We Get Married
Bill Deal & The Rhondells – May I

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon. They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction. The Who have sold about 100 million records, and have charted 27 top forty singles in the United Kingdom and United States, as well as 17 top ten albums, with 18 Gold, 12 Platinum and 5 Multi-Platinum album awards in the United States alone.

Moon died at the age of 32 in 1978, after which the band released two studio albums, the UK and US top five Face Dances (1981) and the US top ten It’s Hard (1982), with drummer Kenney Jones, before disbanding in 1983. They re-formed at events such as Live Aid and for reunion tours such as their 25th anniversary tour (1989) and the Quadrophenia tours of 1996 and 1997. In 2000, the three surviving original members discussed recording an album of new material, but their plans temporarily stalled upon Entwistle’s death at the age of 57 in 2002. Townshend and Daltrey continue to perform as The Who, and in 2006 they released the studio album Endless Wire, which reached the top ten in the UK and US.

Has anyone besides me ever wondered why CSI: Miami and CSI: Las Vegas have The Who’s songs as their themes, but CSI: NY doesn’t? It bothers me… Anyway, my dad had a few of their albums:

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Count Five (sometimes known as Count V) was a garage band from San Jose, California. The band consisted of Kenn Ellner, John Byrne, Roy Chaney, John Michalski and Craig Atkinson. The band then shifted genres to mostly garage style rock and roll with influences from The Yardbirds, The Beatles, The Who, and The Rolling Stones.

Their song, Psychotic Reaction, reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1966, and was selected as one of the “500 Most Influential Songs in Rock n’ Roll History” by the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. Psychotic Reaction was released worldwide and gained popularity in the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, and Mexico. Psychotic Reaction was popular in the Vietnam War era, and appears in the game Battlefield Vietnam. The song was modeled after the Yardbirds’s song “I’m a Man”, with a repetitious rhythm that eventually changes to a faster beat, an electric guitar playing a hypnotic melody going up the scales, and a similar style of percussion to that of the Yardbirds hit.

Gladys Knight & The Pips – Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
The Moments – Sexy Mama
Kool & The Gang – Jungle Boogie
Mocedades – Eres Tu (Touch the Wind)
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
Stories – If It Feels Good, Do It
The Impressions – Finally Got Myself Together
Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There
Natural Four – Can This Be Real
El Chicano – Tell Her She’s Lovely